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URL:https://www.ctvoicesofhope.org/events/the-watchmakers-virtual-author-e
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SUMMARY:The Watchmakers: Virtual Author Event with Scott Lenga
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 30 at 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm\n\n\nJoin us for a
  virtual event with author Scott Lenga\, joining us from Tel Aviv\, to dis
 cuss The Watchmakers: A Powerful WW2 Story of Brotherhood\, Survival\, an
 d Hope Amid the Holocaust.\n\nThis title was a 2022 National Jewish Book A
 ward Finalist! An extraordinary memoir of endurance\, faith\, and a uniqu
 e skill that kept three brothers together—and alive—during the darkest
  times of World War II.\n\nHarry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic J
 ews in Kozhnitz\, Poland. The proud sons of a watchmaker\, Harry and his t
 wo brothers\, Mailekh and Moishe\, studied their father’s trade at a you
 ng age. Upon the German invasion of Poland\, when the Lenga family was upe
 nded\, Harry and his brothers never anticipated that the tools acquired fr
 om their father would be the key to their survival.\n\nUnder the most deva
 stating conditions imaginable—with death always imminent—fixing watche
 s for the Germans in the ghettos and brutal slave labor camps of occupied 
 Poland and Austria bought their lives over and over again. From Wolanow an
 d Starachowice to Auschwitz and Ebensee\, Harry\, Mailekh\, and Moishe end
 ured\, bartered\, worked\, prayed\, and lived to see liberation.\n\nDerive
 d from more than a decade of interviews with Harry Lenga\, conducted by hi
 s own son Scott and others\, The Watchmakers is Harry’s heartening and
  unflinchingly honest first-person account of his childhood\, the lessons 
 learned from his own father\, his harrowing tribulations\, and his inspiri
 ng life before\, during\, and after the war. It is a singular and vital st
 ory\, told from one generation to the next—and a profoundly moving tribu
 te to brotherhood\, fatherhood\, family\, and faith.\n\n\n\nHarry Lenga w
 as born in 1919 to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz\, Poland. He cam
 e to the United States in April 1949 and lived with his wife and three chi
 ldren in St. Louis\, where he worked as a watchmaker for nearly thirty yea
 rs before he retired. In 1998\, he moved with his wife to Israel. Harry Le
 nga died on January 2\, 2000\, at the age of eighty.\n\nScott Lenga is th
 e son of Harry Lenga. He holds a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley and a la
 w degree from UCLA. He is married with three daughters who grew up listeni
 ng to stories about the grandfather they never really knew. He lives in Is
 rael\, where he provides general counsel services to emerging technology c
 ompanies. Visit him online at ScottLenga.com.\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the 
 Avon Library\, The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford\, Voic
 es of Hope\, Mandell Jewish Book Festival\, and the Maurice Greenberg C
 enter for Judaic Studies.\n\nPlease register here\; Zoom links will be sen
 t out before the event.
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